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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYE07

1978-02-05 GRAHAM, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9442F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HUGHES 269B

Year of manufacture

1966 · 12 years old at event

TCDS

4H12 · SCHWEIZER RSG LLC

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670313

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD1EA8

Registrant of record

RHODES TERRY G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9442F Hughes 269B None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

HUGHES 269B · N9442F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EI

Operator type

D

Airport

DITTMERS

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

180° / 4 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000115-0213

Total time

1,553 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,500

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NDING.M/R FLEXED INTO BOOM.

Investigator remarks

USED INSUFFICIENT COLLECTIVE PITCH TO CUSHION LA

Cause factors

66/C/23 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
88/L/85 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0258. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0258.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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